Google’s Android problems with Microsoft and GNU might seem bad enough.  But they are chickenfeed compared to the trouble they are in with Oracle… In the prior post on this subject, I covered Google’s troubles with Microsoft and the Linux license.  I described these as relatively benign, although the problems may have seemed (and are) quite severe.  …

Google is in real trouble with patents, and it could threaten the whole company.  This has been viewed as a background issue which they can make disappear, but after looking at the suits in detail, I don’t think they can.  It’s a giant problem – largely of their own making. In a number of previous posts I have written…

In a previous post I reviewed the Google Maps app for Android and iPhone, and lamented that the brilliant Android-exclusive ‘3D view’ was not yet available for London. In the last few days however, my London Google map app has suddenly sprung into 3D. Watching all the London landmarks pop up on the map, in…